Knockdowm plant-box.



PATENTED FEB. 18, 1-908.

N. HIGHT.

KNOGKDOWN PLANT BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1907.

lNVENTOH JZam/zigiv WITNESSES ATZOHNEYSA THE NORRIS PETERS c NELSONEIGHT, OF WOLFBORO, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

KNOGKDOWN PLANT-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1908.

Applicatim filed May 22. 1907. seen no. 374,989.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a very simple, durable, andreadily operated box in which to grow plants, so constructed that thebody portion is in sections separable from each other and from thebottom, means being provided for holding the parts closely assembled,while the plants are growing in the box, which locking means can bequickly and conveniently cast oif to provide for separation of the partsand a practically complete exposure of the earth in which the roots arecontained, enabling the plants to be removed and transplanted with theirmother earth intact.

It is a further purpose of the invention to provide the box with aremovable partition. whereby the box may be divided into compartmentsfor growing individual plants, enabling each plant with its accompanyingearth to be independently removed when transplanting.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference I indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved box with its parts lockedin position for use; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the box withthe parts in the position shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section throughthe box, its parts being shown in the act of separation; and Fig. 4 is adetail perspective view of the partition for the box.

The box consists primarily of a bottom or base A, and a body, the bodybeing divided into two members B and B. The bottom or base A is providedwith a recess 12 in its upper face, that receives the bottom portion ofthe body of the box when the parts thereof are assembled. The bottom andlikewise the body of the box may be of any desired shape; in thedrawings they are shown rectangular, but the contour of the recess 12contour of the body of the box at its bottom portion. The members B andB of the box body are of identical construction, the member B consistingof a full panel 10 and two opposing partial panels 11, while theopposing member B consists of a full panel 10 corresponding to the panel10 mentioned, and partial panels 11 corresponding to the partial panels11 of the member B, and when the members of the body are broughttogether the lower edges of said members fit snugly in the base orbottom recess 12, and the opposing longitudinal edges of the partialpanels 1 1 and 11 are brought close together so as to form jointlycomplete panels corresponding, preferably, in size to the completepanels 10 and 10 above mentioned, and as is shown in Fig. 1. v

A bail 13 is pivotally attached to the bottom or base A at the sideswhere the partial panels of the body meet, as is also shown best inFig. 1. wire of suitable gage, and extend nearly to the top of the bodyof the box when in place. In connection with the bails 13, buttons 14and 15 are employed; these buttons are lo cated at the upper portions ofthe partial panels 11 and 11 of the body of the box. The button 14 is apivoted button, while the button 15 is a fixed button. The button 14 isshown carried by the partial panels 1.1 and the button 15 by the partialpanels 11 the two buttons being practically in transverse alinement andthe fixed button 15 extends upwardly and outwardly, as is shown in Figs.1 and 2, being provided atits upper portion with an under cut recess 16,and when the pivoted button 14 is in looking position it extends in adirection substantially opposite to that of the fixed button 15.

In assembling the parts of the box, the members B and B are broughttogether and arefitted at their lower ends at the base or bottom recess12, then the pivoted buttons 14 having been carried downward the bails13 are raised and are swung over the fixed These bails 13 are of spring.

buttons 15 entering the under cut recesses 16 in the base or bottom Amust conform to the ward, as is shown in Fig. 3, the members B plants inthe one box; to that end I provide a removable partition C- for the box,shown in detail in Fig. 4. This partition consists of two or more,usually two, leaves 17 and 18 of equal size made of cardboard,straw-board,

' or the like, and each leaf at the central portion of opposite ends, isprovided with a vertical cut 19, and then the leaves are broughttogether so that the central under cut portion of one leaf will bereceived in the corres onding cut portion of the other leaf. It wil beunderstood that the leaves are of such dimensions and so shaped thatwhen placed in a box they fit snugly to the panels thereof, as is shownin Fig. 1. When this partition is employed a number of plants can beindividually grown in one box, and when the body of the box isdismantled each plant can be individually removed with its accompanyingmother earth. It will further be understood that I do not confine myselfto any particular material in the construction of either the box or thepartition therefor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

1. A box for growing plants comprising a base and a body mounted uponthe base, said body comprising separable members adapted in one positionto swing outward from the base, and a bail pivoted to the base andadapted to swing upward against the side of the body, said body beingprovided with means for engaging the bail, whereby to lock the base andthe body together.

2. In a box for growing plants, the com bination with a base having arecess in its upper face and bails pivotally mounted on the said baseadjacent its recess, of a body comprising two members independent ofeach other and independent of the base, said members when broughttogether having their lower ends fitted in the said base, and buttonscarried at opposite sides of the said sides of the said recess on thesaid base, of a body, the lower end of which is adapted to be fitted inthe recess of the base, which body consists of two members, eachcomprising a full panel and two partial panels,

the partial panels being adapted to be brought together when the body ofthe box is fitted to the base, a fixed button on each of the partialpanels of one member of the body, and pivoted buttons on the partialpanels of the opposing member of the body,

the said buttons being adapted for locking engagement with the saidbails.

5. In a box for growing plants, the combination with a base having arecess in its upper face and bails pivoted at opposite sides of the saidrecess on the said base, of a body, the lower end of which is adapted tobe fitted in the recess of the base, which body consists of two members,each comprising a full panel and two partial panels, the partial panelsbeing adapted to be brought together when the body of the box is fittedto the base, a fixed button on each of the partial panels of one memberof the body, and pivoted buttons on the partial panels of the opposingmember of the body, the said buttons being adapted for lockingengagement with the said bails, and a artition removably located in thebody of the box.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of the subscribing witnesses.

NELSON HIGHTs Witnesses:

SEWALL W. ABBOTT, .EARLE N. HIGHT,

MARY A. HoYT.

